University Of Washington Cafeteria Eliminates Cash To Prevent Theft

Apr 9, 2012

A cafeteria on the University of Washington campus in Seattle no longer accepts cash payments, according to KOMO-TV in Seattle, Wash. For the full story, click here.

Editor’s Insight: It didn’t take long for this university foodservice operation to remove cash from the environment after realizing that only 3 percent of the students were paying with cash. When the school discovered $4,000 in cash missing in one week, it wasn’t a hard decision to make.

This isn’t the first school to remove cash from the cafeteria; many secondary schools have done so after introducing point of sale tracking systems that allow students to pay with payment cards or with biometric identification.

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